Return of the Forgotten- Novel

The world has changed, monsters roam the wierd landscape that has ben shaped to the liking of the creatures that brought about humanity's end. All because of a greedy man. Yet humanity survived, and they have a story of their own.

The Empire of Daskus is threatened by the rebellion.
The Emperor has to face his past
And on the coast a mysterious vessel appears, who'se inhabitants have a secret to tell.
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The world was beautiful once, with trees everywhere, and birds
singing to them. Then a greedy man came along, Dane Maske, an
inventor of the new age. His masterpiece was the ANGEL, a
medicine that could resurrect the dead, and give eternal life.
After 100 years everyone had it, and the worlds populations kept
on growing and growing, so Dane ordered that the people who don't
pay their taxes to be killed, yet he forgot that the ANGEL gave
people eternal life; they could not be killed. The medicine
enhanced their white blood cell's efficiency greatly, someone
could burn alive and melt, and the body will reform itself, chop
off their head, they grow a new one. Dane had no idea what he
could do with them, but then he had an idea, the bodies before
ANGEL; the ones that were dead, he dug up and burned, and built
airtight boxes no one could escape, and he put the surplus
population in them boxes. Underneath everyone's noses were
thousands of people screaming for eternity, people who will be
forever out of breath, forever hungry, forever thirsty, forever
in pain.

By this time no one was left who still believed in the ancient
beings who once walked on the ground as the essence of the world,
the song of the nature to be built, the power of the beasts that
would roam, and the feelings they would feel. They created
everything, but with one rule: "Utopia will be met with
darkness." It used to be that everyone believed In them, but
overtime, people thought it was all bedtime stories for kids.

Dane didn't believe, and he wasn't prepared, on the year of Sach,
2483, the shadows came. As it is written in the prophecies of
Honitru: First the energy of the world is drained; the
lights went out. Then the beasts would start to howl and the
soil will turn; The local dogs started to bark and the trees
started to fall into the ground leaving bottomless potholes in
the earth. In light you will be unable to see; The sun
disappeared. And darkness will swarm from the light; The
shadows erupted from the magma filled holes.

So it began, The Shadows started to kill people instantly,
daggers of shadows would pierce a man's heart and witnesses would
see a blinding stream of light flow up and pierce a hole in the
darkness, and the man would tumble to the ground, lifeless, his
body would turn and twist and change, he would grow strange
features; maybe wings, maybe fangs maybe a mane: they would
become a monster. then a shadow would pierce them again but this
time consuming them , and they would rise and wreak havoc on the
people who were unfortunate enough to survive the first wave of
attack. Slowly the world's population dwindled, and no records
were took from 2484-3001, so one can only guess that when the
first record spoke of a barren world with little life, that the
shadows had killed everyone and disposed of them, and then left.
Yet how the new man came to be after the shadows was impossible
to know.

The land of Igre was to be their home, a large continent with
vast deserts, hazardous mountain sides and roaming hills. It was
the only place they knew to have life, but it did not just have
human life. Monsters roamed the lands that they called home,
beasts of all kinds, but each as terrible as the other. The first
group pushed them back, back far enough to build a settlement
that could be protected, and they thirved in this town. The
population grew and soon, they were able to push the monsters
further away.

In the year, 3470, a lost prophecy by Honitru was found.

At the end of men, a new being will roam, with no birth
parents. But when the forgotten is remembered men will walk
again, as the summers eve, the oblivious winter will retreat from
the warmth, the upcoming, the rising of life. Real life

The survivors started a colony, and over 2 generations this
small colony had turned into a kingdom, and the kingdom thrived
and the population grew steady, and in the high court were the
direct descendants of the first survivors. There were no big
assassinations, no huge wars, even very few petty thefts, but one
day the court was arguing, and power became the subject, and each
lord wanted more.

And so the colony became several, and they grew larger, and war
started again, so lay on the land of Askuj, so named after the
first recorders name, three major empires, one small and one
hidden and one known, the smallest empire was the Empire of
Weser, The known one was the Empire of Daskus, and the hidden was
the Empire of the Aenugleilos, of which no information is known.
We can only presume that the empire fell for some reason, but we
do know, they never were situated on the land of Igre.